Throwback Thursday: Time at the Top

Throwback
Thursday is a new feature at Reading Lark. We'll still be doing some
Book Boyfriend Posts and Book BFF Posts on Thursdays as well, but the
Larks wanted a little variety on Thursdays. Throwback Thursday will allow us to throwback to some of the
reads we've loved -- whether it's a book reviewed last year, a book we
hid under the covers to read as a teen, or a picture book from our
childhood -- we hope you'll enjoy reliving the memories as much as we do!

Time at the Top

By: Edward OrmondroydPublished: 1963

This was a book I read over and over and over again as a child. Time travel combined with the Victorian era was pretty much perfect for a young Julie. I loved the idea of living double lives and keeping secrets. Susan had to convince her father that the elevator in their apartment building was actually a time machine; she had to solve mysteries in the present and the past. Such a great book!

It's strange enough
when Susan Shaw disappears without a trace on a wintry March afternoon.
It's stranger still when her uninformative note is found in the hallway
of her apartment building, along with a black cat that no one has seen
before. And it's strangest of all when she suddenly appears again,
wearing clothes that are eighty years out of date, and tells a wild
story about an old woman with a fly-away hat, an elevator that travels
into the past, and a distressed family that only she can save. Who
is going to believe such a tale? Certainly not her father. But Susan is
determined to prove to him that it's all true. And she has other plans
for him as well...Who, in fact, could believe such a tale? Even
the author, who takes part in the story, has his doubts. But just as
those doubts are all laid to rest, the mystery thickens once more. This
time it's a double disappearance...